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NCSE Teacher Ambassadors John Mead and Blake Touchet
NCSE Teacher Ambassadors John Mead and Blake Touchet
Two NCSE Teacher Ambassadors honored by NABT
NCSE is pleased to congratulate John S. Mead, one of NCSE's Teacher Ambassadors, on receiving the National Association of Biology Teachers Evolution Education Award — sponsored by BSCS Science Learning and the BEACON Center for the Study of Evolution in Action — for 2019. BEACON's Louise S. Mead, a…
NABT logo
NABT logo
NABT reaffirms the importance of evolution in science education
The National Association of Biology Teachers recently released a revised version of its position statement on teaching evolution. Describing the teaching of evolution as "a necessary foundational framework for understanding our natural world" and "a necessary part of teaching biology in an…
Ben Santer
Ben Santer
NCSE board member Ben Santer explains the evidence for anthropogenic climate change
In his essay "How Do We Know that Human Activities Have Affected Global Climate?" — posted on Sigma Xi's blog on November 11, 2019 — Ben Santer explains the scientific research that produced the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's conclusion that "the balance of evidence suggests…
Russ Doolittle
Russ Doolittle
Russell Doolittle dies
The eminent biochemist Russell Doolittle died on October 11, 2019, at the age of 88, according to the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at the University of California, San Diego, which praised Doolittle as "a true pioneer in early gene science," adding, "He led the way to how it is used and…
NCSE volunteers hard at work
NCSE volunteers hard at work
Help wanted: part-time spring intern
NCSE is seeking to hire a part-time spring intern to assist our teacher support and community outreach programs. This is a unique opportunity for someone with a science background to learn about community organizing and science outreach. This is a temporary position based in Oakland, California,…
Bay Area Science Festival collage
Bay Area Science Festival collage
Bay Area Science Festival Roundup
“I want to make it my hometown,” said an eight-year-old boy, quickly replacing water features with blocks and blocks of sand. We had been leading the outreach activity Cool Cities, focused on mitigating the heat island effect, at San Francisco’s Oracle Park for a couple of hours at that point, and…
Lacey Wieser
Lacey Wieser
Lacey Wieser: A champion for accurate science education
“I had to do it. There was no ‘choice,’” Lacey Wieser explains about her decision last year to resign as Arizona’s Director of K–12 Science and STEM. The Arizona superintendent of public instruction, Diane Douglas, had just asked Wieser to strike references to evolution in a draft set of science…
whiteboard with lesson intentions
whiteboard with lesson intentions
Climate change perceived and taught differently across Florida
Public schools in Florida are not teaching about climate change consistently or adequately, according to a detailed story in the Bradenton Herald (November 2, 2019).  "Though it starts to broach the subject of climate change, along with greenhouse gases and fossil fuels, even Florida…
Phillip Johnson
Phillip Johnson
Phillip Johnson dies
Phillip Johnson, the University of California, Berkeley, law professor who is often described as the godfather of the "intelligent design" movement, died on November 2, 2019, at the age of 79, according to The Christian Post (November 4, 2019). A prolific writer, his books arguing against what he…

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